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How to Enable or Disable Touchpad in Windows 10

If your Windows 10 PC (ex: laptop) has a built-in touchpad, you may want to enable or disable on demand.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the touchpad in Windows 10.

The TouchPad settings will vary from one device and driver to another, so you may not have some settings or your settings may be different than in this tutorial.

If you have something different, then please post screenshots. I'll be happy to include it in the tutorial for others.

Contents

Option One: Double Tap to Enable or Disable Touchpad
Option Two: Disable Touchpad when Mouse is Connected
Option Three: Enable or Disable Touchpad using Keyboard Shortcut
Option Four: Enable or Disable Touchpad in Touchpad Settings
Option Five: Enable or Disable Touchpad for some ThinkPad, IdeaPad, Lenovo Laptops
Option Six: Enable or Disable Precision Touchpad in Settings
Option Seven: Enable or Disable Precision Touchpad using a REG file

OPTION ONE

Double Tap to Enable or Disable Touchpad

1 If the Double Tap To Enable or Disable TouchPad setting is enabled, you can double tap on the corner zone (top left) of the touchpad to enable or disable the touchpad as wanted.

OPTION TWO

Disable Touchpad when Mouse is Connected

1 If the Leave touchpad on when a mouse is connected setting is enabled, the touchpad will automatically be disabled when a mouse is connected and automatically enable the touchpad when the mouse is disconnected.

OPTION THREE

Enable or Disable Touchpad using Keyboard Shortcut

1 Some devices may have a F5 or F6 function key available allowing you to press Fn plus the function key to enable or disable the touchpad as wanted.

The exact function key will vary per device if even available. Some devices may have a switch to toggle instead.

Enable or Disable Touchpad in Touchpad Settings

1 Open Settings, and click/tap on the Devices icon.

2 Click/tap on Touchpad on the left side, and click/tap on the Additional settings link under Related settings on the right side. (see screenshot below)

3 Do step 4 (disable) or step 5 (enable) below for what you want to do.

4. To Disable Touchpad

A) In the ClickPad Settings tab (name may vary), click/tap on the ClickPad Disable button (name may vary). (see screenshots below)

B) Click/tap on OK to confirm. (see screenshot below)

C) Click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)

5. To Enable Touchpad

A) In the ClickPad Settings tab (name may vary), click/tap on the ClickPad Enable button (name may vary), and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)

OPTION FIVE

Enable or Disable Touchpad for some ThinkPad, IdeaPad, Lenovo Laptops

1 Source: How to enable and disable your touchpad for ThinkPad, IdeaPad, Lenovo Laptops - US

OPTION SIX

Enable or Disable Precision Touchpad in Settings

1 Open Settings, and click/tap on the Devices icon.

2 Click/tap on Touchpad on the left side, and turn on (default) or off Touchpad on the right side for what you want. (see screenshots below)

OPTION SEVEN

Enable or Disable Precision Touchpad using a REG file

The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PrecisionTouchPad\Status

Enabled DWORD

0 = Disable (off)
1 = Enable (on)

1 Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.

2. To Enable Precision Touchpad for Current User

This is the default setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Enable_Precision_touchpad.reg

Download

3. To Disable Precision Touchpad for Current User

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Disable_Precision_touchpad.reg

Download

4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 Restart the computer to apply.

8 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn Brink